1910 VFL premiership season
Collingwood 1910 VFL premiership team
Date	30 April – 1 October 1910
Teams	10
Premiers	Collingwood 3rd premiership
Minor premiers	Carlton 4th minor premiership
Leading goalkicker medallist	Percy Martini (Geelong) 51 goals
Matches played	94
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The1910 VFL season was the 14th season of theVictorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured ten clubs and ran from 30 April to 1 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-weekfinals series featuring the top four clubs.

Collingwood won thepremiership, defeatingCarlton by 14 points in the1910 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's third VFL premiership. Carlton won theminor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record.Geelong'sPercy Martini won theleading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.

In 1910, the VFL competition comprised ten teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1910 VFLPremiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of theamended "Argus system".

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 54.1
Source:AFL Tables

All of the 1910 finals were played at theMCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

• FormerCarlton coach Jack Worrall was appointed umpires' coach, with a view to raising standards and decreasing violence.^[1]
• Round 2, originally scheduled for 7 May, was postponed by one week, and remaining rounds pushed back by one week, due to the death ofKing Edward VII on 6 May.^[2] TheVictorian Football Association andMetropolitan Junior Football Association also took the same action.^[3][4]
• In the last quarter of the round 4 match betweenCarlton andSouth Melbourne, Carlton'sGeorge Topping coward-hit South Melbourne'sBert Streckfuss behind the play, causing spectators to jump the fence and participate in an all-in melee with players and officials. Topping was suspended for the remainder of 1910 and all of 1911 as a result of the incident.^[1]
• VFL conducted an inquiry into allegations that particular players from Carlton, Fitzroy, Melbourne, and South Melbourne had been paid to play "dead". In particular,Carlton'sDoug Gillespie,Alex "Bongo" Lang, andDoug Fraser were investigated (the inquiry dealt with Lang and Fraser behind closed doors). Gillespie was exonerated, while Lang and Fraser were each suspended for five years.^[1]
• St Kilda, after losing its first seventeen games, defeated minor premier Carlton in a major upset in the last round to avoid its expected fifthwinless season. It remains the worst start by a VFL/AFL team that didnot finish winless, equalled in2001 byFremantle.
• Carlton player and SecretaryArthur Charles "Shooter" Ford was charged with abusing and physically threatening the field umpire (off the field) after Carlton's round 14 match against Fitzroy; Ford was suspended for 12 months and debarred from his role as Club Secretary.^[1] There was speculation that the issue between the two was connected with the suspension ofGeorge Topping earlier in the season.
• T.W Sherrin manufactured special footballs for the Premiership Finals.^[1]

• The 1910 VFL Premiership team wasCollingwood.
• TheVFL's leading goalkicker wasPercy Martini ofGeelong with 51 goals.
• St Kilda took the "wooden spoon" in 1910.

• Player payments and the great bribery scandal

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